Two days into a Sprint, a senior executive instructs the Developers directly to add an urgent item. What should the Product Owner do?

• AAllow it, since the executive outranks everyone in the Scrum Team.
• BTake the conversation, establish what is genuinely at stake, and decide with the Developers whether the Sprint Goal still holds or the Sprint should be cancelled.
• CRefuse on principle, because the Sprint Backlog cannot change during a Sprint.
• DEscalate to the Scrum Master to have the executive removed from the conversation.